Mr Greenspan is a skilled political operator: he knows his every utterance is scrutinised for nuances and he would not want to be blamed for publicly undermining the president's economic strategy.
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Meanwhile, radical Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr has called for all contracts of foreign securities firms to be annulled and blamed the government for failing to protect Iraqis, noting the shootings occurred on a busy square filled with Iraqi troops.
That seems unlikely: the Republicans will not want to be blamed for the recession.
And the longer they last, the less either side will want to be blamed for wrecking them.
He does not want to be blamed for restarting a crisis that he has just been praised for solving.
No man with presidential ambitions wants to be blamed for worsening a crisis.
Given the nature of the Israeli media, Netanyahu would certainly pay a political price if he were to be blamed for making the administration turn against Israel.
Neither party will make the necessary tough decisions alone, he wrote in the Wall Street Journal this week, because neither wants to be blamed for what might happen next.
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Republicans, who oppose expanded government regulation, don't want to be blamed for a bill's defeat and might not be if it should appear that the Democratic majority can't come to agreement among themselves.
So if one country creates an environment where those who have done well for themselves are suddenly stung with a massive hike in the money the state wants to confiscate from them, they cannot be blamed for wanting to rearrange their finances, their domicile or even their nationality.
It expects not to be blamed by other nations for emissions it makes on their behalf.
That fighting appeared to be what the government blamed for its artillery barrage.
And China can hardly be blamed for wanting to use the opportunity presented by its own economic development to develop its local industries and companies.
Railtrack cannot be blamed for seeking to profit from such a system, but it can be faulted for neglecting its regulatory obligation to develop the network.
Surely no government in the world can be blamed for meeting its responsibilities to such high levels.
He has also been blamed for what is said to be the Bush Administration's undue trumpeting of threats of imminent attacks on the United States.
Now, we have begun to take collective decisions so I alone will not be blamed for them.
They asserted that the border must be fixed, and blamed Republican-controlled Washington for failing to do so.
And neither side wants to be blamed by seniors (read: major voting block) for delaying social security payments.
On the other hand, those policies, years later, would be blamed for stimulating the housing boom that eventually led to a bubble that burst.
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It added that while high levels of inflation in the defence sector could be partly blamed, the MoD had to take most of the responsibility for over-spending.
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Mr Erdogan can rightly be blamed for displaying an autocratic streak, for failing to engage his opponents and for not pursuing constitutional reform urgently enough since his re-election last July.
It also blamed poor conditions and called for the prison system to be overhauled.
For years the Khmer Rouge could be blamed for much of the illicit trade, which they used to bankroll their guerrilla operations.
Beyond that, there are a lot of ways to get to compromise here and that is what the American people, I think, really want us to do is to compromise, not stick it to anybody, not score political victories and see who can be blamed for the economic damage that would be done by the fight here.
But Pietersen could not really be blamed for playing defensively forward and getting the faintest of edges through to an ecstatic Boucher.
Other companies also appear to be making more progress than Apple on reducing greenhouse gas emissions that are blamed for global warming.
If the talks fail, this could be blamed on Chavez, satisfying the general desire for negotiations without giving the blame to Uribe.
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